- Habermas argues that the development of early modern capitalism brought into being and autonomous arena of public debate.
- He argues the public sphere came to be dominated by an expanded state and organized economic interests.
- Within the public sphere, people collectively determine through the processes of rational argument the way in which they want to see society develop.
- The media manipulated mass opinion, it defined politics as a spectacle, and it conditioned the public in the role of passive consumers.
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